Atta Arghandiwal
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Books for anyone forced to begin again.

Two current books: a field manual for rebuilding in an AI-shaped economy, and a memoir of Afghanistan, exile, and the search for home. Earlier guides stand behind them.

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The Self-Sufficient Immigrant in the Age of AI

A Field Manual for the Work of Standing Again

Atta Arghandiwal and Sohrab Rasouli

A field manual for the work of standing again.

The Stability Triangle

Safety, competence, belonging, and trust.

The AI Judgment Card

Ask safely, protect private information, and verify.

A rebuilding path

Across systems, family, work, education, money, protection, and the long game.

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Lost Decency: The Gilded Cages and the Search for Home

Atta Arghandiwal

Afghanistan, exile, and the search for home.

A 2012 Foreword INDIES finalist in Autobiography & Memoir and a 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award finalist for the Bill Fisher Best First Book—Nonfiction.

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Earlier work

The books that came first.

Practical guides and an earlier edition of the memoir. They remain available and are listed here for readers, libraries, and researchers who are looking for them.

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